Redditor (and father of the year) JeremiahGorman posted these photos of a simulated spaceship he built for his son Finn’s fifth birthday. Assembled with surplus electronic components including a master control board from a television station dumpster, the spaceship’s control panel is mounted below Finn’s newly-lofted bed. Check out the gallery below for photos of the build process and Captain Finn operating his brand new spacecraft.

Matt Richardson is a San Francisco-based creative technologist and Contributing Editor at MAKE. He’s the co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi and the author of Getting Started with BeagleBone.

This is a grass valley 300 controller. The same type as used in the death star’s firing sequence. (although yes, the death star’s one has an extra row of buttons here and there, for keying & delegation….)

…The link is my username link.

Source : I am a broadcast Engineer.

chmodlabs

I saw a troll GIF of the death star destroying the mayans and recognized those large throttle-like controls. Nice to know that those controls were indeed from the same deck.

Ha cool – I made something similar when i was a weebie.. spent a couple of years adding lights and buzzers to it. Had a photo copier as a portal window and some old audio mixing gear as buttons and levers… those T-bars are pretty cool.. wish I had found some of them!

jimbotbay

lol … the stories about a kid playing with the new spaceship dad built for him, and all the commenters ( adults, theoretically ) can do is try to out-geek each other by showing that they know what kind of long-outdated equipment it is.

congratulations, losers, we’re all suitably non-impressed. now grow up and get a life.

sheesh.

http://www.MyStarTrekScrapbook.blogspot.com Frederick McCloud

Awesome Dad, I had to make do with a cardboard box with crayoned control panels. This kid is lucky to have such a great father.